GADDAFI SAYS HE INSPIRED THE TOPPLING OF THE BERLIN WALL

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 19, 2012
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: July 9, 1990
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GADDAFI SAYS HE INSPIRED THE TOPPLING OF THE BERLIN WALL
NICOSIA, July 9, Reuter - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has
taken the credit for inspiring worldwide political changes,
including the destruc-ti-on-of the Berlin Wall.
In a speech carried by the Libyan news agency JANA.on./
Monday, he said his "Green Book'' outlining-.the theory of a
Jamahiriya or people's republic had inspired popular movementsi
internationally. ;
`The people crawled alone to the Berlin Wall without a
political decision...the idea of German unity started actually
from the Jamahiriya but it is difficult for them to admit
that,'' he said in his speech in Benghazi on Saturday.
Gaddafi, who seized power from King Idris in 1969, renamed
his country The Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya in
1977. His 'Green Book'' postulates a state in which the people
rule and not poli.tic_ians_or a party.--
;He said changes in Eastern Europe, China, Korea or anywhere,'
else in the world were caused by popular unrest following the_i
Libyan model, rather than political decisions,/
``The Green Book came out at a time when nobody thought that
what it says would become reality... then, nobody thought that
Communism would collapse,'' he said.
"The people want to rule themselves... establish Jamahirite
systems because republics, empires, kingdoms and governments
will all fall down in the people's era.''
Gaddafi compared initial reaction to his "Green Book'' to
the response which Christopher Columbus faced in 1492.
"They used to call him and his followers madmen...and the
madmen became an example for millions who started following
Columbus to the new world, America.''
He said no one had accepted his Jamahiriya theory because it
came from a small Bedouin country.
"But all religions and philosophies were brought by unknown
people who did not know they would be followed by millions after
their death,'' he added, mentioning the Prophet Mohammed and
Jesus Christ.
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